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Genetic architecture of metabolic rate: environment specific epistasis between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in an insect.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2010
Arnqvist Göran, Dowling Damian K, Eady Paul, Gay Laurene, Tregenza Tom, Tuda Midori, Hosken David J
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The extent to which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation is involved in adaptive evolutionary change is currently being reevaluated. In particular, emerging evidence suggests that mtDNA genes coevolve with the nuclear genes with which they interact to form the energy producing enzyme complexes in the mitochondria. This suggests that intergenomic epistasis between mitochondrial and nuclear genes may affect...
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